Welcome to Bridging the Gap, a project aimed at creating partnerships between teachers and archivists and connecting communities with local archives to create engaging place-based primary source lessons for K-12 educators.

Here you will find information about our experience working together, as well as lessons created by teachers working with our project team.

Lessons are designed to develop critical thinking skills so that your students can better explore historical documents and foster rich understandings of community-based knowledge, emphasizing the significance of deepening investigations into different perspectives and understandings.

We encourage you to use this tool in your own work and ongoing projects at your school, in your community, and with your students to promote public engagement with historical records and archival documents.